Day One
Day Two
Day Three
Day Four

Look for the link to ‘Slope style & Big Air‘ on the right hand side.

All the photos from this year’s events will be available on USNZ’s Flickr site next week.

The new schedule for Wednesday 2nd September (at Snow Park) can be found on the Competition Programme page.

CANCELLED EVENTS:
Slalom Ski and Giant Slalom Ski and Board are cancelled and won’t run in the 2009 Uni Snow Games.

After the closure of Cardrona yesterday due to atrocious weather, awakening to brilliant sunshine for Day Two of the Games created huge relief! And it didn’t falter, providing a fantastic day of competition for the competitors and spectators alike.

The Cardrona Gravity Cross course was used for the Skier and Boarder Cross today. This is the feature event for the University Snow Games with 130 students competing. This course was an FIS level course with some fast flowing features down the mountain. Straight out of the start the competitors approached a Wu Tang feature, (this sorted out the men from the boys). The rest of the course included sweepers, rollers, burms and jumps, all providing for some exciting heats.

The finals provided thrilling racing with some of the finalists having raced in the recent Winter Games Boarder Cross. Racers were familiar with the course’s difficult features by the final run and gaining front position was important at the first turn.

Cody Logan and Phil Dominick came up against Michael Kibblewhite and Carl van der Boom in the Male Boarder Cross final, with Logan crossing the line in first place.

It was the Australians who shone through in the Women’s events with Melbourne University student, Whitney Campbell, taking out the Boarder Cross final, beating strong competitors in Claire Nash, Georgina Allen and Estelle Baker. And fellow Melbourne Uni student, Katya Crema, also had a tough ask in the Skier Cross final, taking the title over Caitlin Feasey, Adiella White and Toni-Rose Brookes.

The 2009 Male Skier Cross title went to Andrew Greig from Otago University, with Tom Johanson and Grant Melhop coming in second and third.

All in all, an awesome day’s racing with some great thrills and spills!

Half Pipe will run one hour later than originally sheduled – see Programme page for full details.

Here are some fun things to do in Wanaka while you wait for the weather to clear….

Like a challenge? Visit Puzzling World home of the world’s first “modern-styled” Great Maze . great photo opportunities and has an incredible Illusion Room www.puzzlingworld.co.nz

Keep up your fitness and go for a ride. Hire a bike from Good Sports and have a ride around the beautiful Lake Wanaka, keep yourself fit and primed for when the weather clears www.good-sports.co.nz

Need some air? Visit the New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum at Wanaka Airport. The museum houses the Alpine Fighter Collection, an amazing collection of airworthy WWII fighter aircraft including a Vampire, Hurricane, Mustang and Polikarpov I-16 & I -153. www.nzfm.co.nz

Go Ice Skating at Queenstown. Open 7 days the Queenstown Fun Centre offers ice skating and skate hire at very reasonable prices.  http://www.queenstown-nz.co.nz/information/product/?product=queenstown-fun-centre-limited

Strong wind conditions eventually forced the closure of the whole Cardrona Resort despite the venues initial optimism of being able to go ahead.

University Sport New Zealand (USNZ) will work with the venue and consider programme options over the next few days. It is hoped that the Camp Counsellors USA – Giant Slalom event will be rescheduled for later in the week.

Team Managers will be contacted tonight with an update on tomorrows weather conditions and any programme changes. The Uni Snow Games hotline message will also be updated as more information becomes available (021 870 212)

Students were treated to product give aways and from Uni Snow Games sponsors ZM radio, V – energy drinks and Neutrogena.

The competition kicks off on Sunday 30 August with students participating in the Camp Counsellors USA sponsored Giant Slalom and Slalom events at Cardrona.